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aimixin talks about morality and Marxism:
morality has never been easy to disentangle from history because everyone interfaces with material changes around them through a lens colored by superstructure. that means that in the application of marxism it's always been impossible to keep them at arms length, and it's counterproductive to try. e.g. here's rosa
or lenin
or marx himself
later marx would be alarmed by this subjectivity and try to set at least his historical method on transhistorical footing, but marxism is more than philosophers interpreting the world; in fact as praxis it aims to repair "the complete rift between books and practical life"
so I see at least a couple of pieces which frustrate attempts to put marxism into a little economic box:
lastly just to touch on your stalin quote, check out mao's review of that book, he calls stalin's blindness on this issue "almost altogether wrong"